xc3ss1v3 Posted December 11, 2014 Report post Posted December 11, 2014 Is there a way to monitor what's happening with a software distribution in real time, so to speak? I've got an OS image I'm waiting to complete distributing to a local DP that has stayed in a "yellow" status for nearly a day now. Looking at the distmgr.log shows that the content has been queued to go. Looking under Distribution Point Configuration Status, I see a message from yesterday 12/10, "Waiting for content... Distribution Manager instructed Scheduler and Sender to send package *packagecode* to child site *sitecode*." While that's descriptive in that I know "something" is happening, it's not descriptive at the same time. Is there any way that I can see the actual transfer being performed? I know it's likely not as simple as a log file stating x bytes of z transferred, but anything would be helpful to know that this distribution isn't just stuck and I'm wasting time. Thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
l.hv.yang Posted December 11, 2014 Report post Posted December 11, 2014 Does everything else distribute ok? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted December 11, 2014 Report post Posted December 11, 2014 if you are running Configuration Manager 2012 R2 then install the R2 toolkit which contains a content monitoring tool to checkout the status of jobs, and change them to run now... for example.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xc3ss1v3 Posted December 11, 2014 Report post Posted December 11, 2014 if you are running Configuration Manager 2012 R2 then install the R2 toolkit which contains a content monitoring tool to checkout the status of jobs, and change them to run now... for example.. Okay. I assume you mean the "Distribution Point Job Queue Manager?" I've run that and connected to the primary site (which also happens to be the distribution point I'm trying to push the OS to) and everything seems to be working fine except that it doesn't list itself as a distribution point. Therefore, I don't see any pending jobs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xc3ss1v3 Posted December 12, 2014 Report post Posted December 12, 2014 Does everything else distribute ok? And yes, other software distributes normally. Just created a package and it finished within minutes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xc3ss1v3 Posted December 12, 2014 Report post Posted December 12, 2014 Could this be caused by there not being enough space on C: of the Central Admin Site to support the .wim file? I know I'm not distributing to that, but it seems I remember a copy of the file is created there when it's distributed to the Primary Site and DPs? I've gone further in testing with the Distribution Point Job Queue Manager, creating a simple package and distributing, then watching the DPJQM for results, which did come up. However, when distributing the .wim to a remote DP (one listed within DPJQM), no results every show up for jobs. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xc3ss1v3 Posted December 12, 2014 Report post Posted December 12, 2014 For anyone that might run into a similar type issue, this most definitely was caused by there not being enough space on the C: drive of the CAS. After going in and cleaning out inetpub log files to free up space, the .wim file distributed successfully. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted December 15, 2014 Report post Posted December 15, 2014 if you type set on the CAS where is your TEMP and TMP pointing to ? you could probably workaround the above problem by changing them to a drive that has lot's of space Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
